Bruce Lee

I don't stop when I'm tired i stop when I'm done.

It is not a daily increase but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain.

A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.

Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you dont support them with strength and flexibility.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

Knowing is not enough. We must apply. Willing is not enough. We must do.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Genius The capacity to see and to express what is simple simply

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Its not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.

A goal is not always meant to be reached it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If you love naps, don't waste naps, for naps are what life is made of.

Always be yourself express yourself have faith in yourself do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

The successful warrior is the average man with laser like focus.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10000 kicks once but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10000 times

Defense is attack attack is defense each being the cause and result of the other.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

After all, all knowledge simply means self knowledge.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled become devoid to gain totality.

Understand your limitations and capitalize on them.

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Always be yourself, express yourself have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.

As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.

The reward is found in the work.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Humility forms the basis of honor just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.

I did what I came here to do. What Ive done Ive done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You cant expect much more from life.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible youll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.

Yesterday’s dreams are often tomorrow’s realities.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Balance your thoughts with action. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing youll never get it done.

Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

As you think, so shall you become.

Do not pray for an easy life pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Dont fear failure. Not failure but low aim is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

All martial arts is simply an honest expression of one's body with a lot of deception in between.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Defeat is a state of mind no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Efficiency is anything that scores.

Real living is living for others.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Empty your mind be formless shapeless like water.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

Absorb what is useful Discard what is not Add what is uniquely your own.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.